brunson
Member
I'm getting sick of all the finger pointing, bickering and remonstrations about forum etiquette that has sprung up here in the past several months. It seems like I spend more time looking at this person telling that person they're doing something wrong and three other people telling the first that there's nothing wrong with what the original poster did. Half the threads going on right now seem to be 3/4 off topic discussions about whether a post should have gotten bumped or that someone should have used the search function and it is frankly starting to make me consider avoiding the site completely.
How would the administrators of the forum feel about making it a formal guideline that reprimanding other posters is a right reserved for forum moderators. I'd very much like to see it documented that public comments on netiquette are considered just as much of an offense as any other of the minor infractions I see starting these mini bickering matches. There's a report button on every post, if someone is guilty of a major infraction or a series of minor ones, that should be the mechanism employed rather than derailing the entire conversation with off topic comments on forum policy. A PM is far more appropriate for letting a newbie know that they're on the fringe of accepted behavior and blatant disregard of policies can be reported.
That's my opinion, how do others feel about this proposal?
How would the administrators of the forum feel about making it a formal guideline that reprimanding other posters is a right reserved for forum moderators. I'd very much like to see it documented that public comments on netiquette are considered just as much of an offense as any other of the minor infractions I see starting these mini bickering matches. There's a report button on every post, if someone is guilty of a major infraction or a series of minor ones, that should be the mechanism employed rather than derailing the entire conversation with off topic comments on forum policy. A PM is far more appropriate for letting a newbie know that they're on the fringe of accepted behavior and blatant disregard of policies can be reported.
That's my opinion, how do others feel about this proposal?
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